And a kinetic strike would do minimal damage to the rest of a planet and leave it suitably empty for the attacker's own colonists.

We should retaliate immediately, targeting their capital city with kinetic strikes from orbit.

If they don't, we'll hit them with kinetic strikes, then drop on them like a ton of lead.

The response team from Space Com found the base destroyed, apparently as a result of a kinetic strike.

If we have to, we can probably evacuate that end of town, then take out the HQ with a kinetic strike.

Colonel, I have detected a kinetic strike in the low kiloton range at the approximate coordinates of Santa Cruz Fleet Base.

I want kinetic strikes because we don't want to dirty up our nice new home now, do we?

At least five waves of kinetic strikes had marched back and forth across the island.

We're doing kinetic strikes in Falluja.

And that bit about forbidding any nuclear or kinetic strikes on the capital-that was downright brilliant!